Yep, I'm no longer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. I spent twenty-four fun and rewarding years at JPL, but jumped ship when SpaceX called and offered me a job that was just too cool to turn down. In general, I'll be helping define and design the avionics architecture for future SpaceX rockets and spacecraft. What am I working on right now? Well, I'm designing a portion of the hardware that will allow our Dragon spacecraft to communicate with the International Space Station.

If you haven't seen it, have a look at the very cool video of our successful launch of Falcon 1 to orbit. If you have the bandwidth, I'd recomend right-clicking on this link to save the 247MB high-definition version of the video to your computer.

-Kevin

Looking for code? My archived FIRST Robotics software and documentation can be found here.

Last update: 10/19/2008
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